[Info-vax] Nomenclature, pt. 2 [was Re: VMS survivability]

[Rich Alderson]

cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:

> In article <tsu14t$g5l7$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

>> And then there is the vendor independence. With Linux you
>> were not tied to SUN/IBM/HP/DEC. Some companies liked that.
   
> "Sun" not "SUN"

The first product from Sun Microsystems was built around the SUN-1 processor
board, in which "SUN" was an acronym for "Stanford University Network".

Andy Bechtolsheim built (did not design) the "4M" processor board[1] designed
by the manager of the Computer Science Department Computer Facility, who was
better known in those days as the author of the Digital Press book on
programming the DECSYSTEM-20 in assembler language.  His buddy from the
Graduate School of Business saw an opportunity, and the rest, as they say, is
history.

[1] "4M": 1 MIPS, 1MB, 1 million pixels, 1Mbps Ethernet.  The design originated
    c. 1979, when even the 3Mbps Ethernet was experimental, and the DIX standard
    for 10Mbps did not yet exist.

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